march
sat09mar7:00 pmRicochetThrive Benefit7:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
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THRIVE IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO’S 3rd ANNUAL BENEFIT CONCERT In 1996 the members of country super group Ricochet watched their debut single, “What Do I
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THRIVE IN SOUTHERN NEW MEXICO’S 3rd ANNUAL BENEFIT CONCERT
In 1996 the members of country super group Ricochet watched their debut single, “What Do I Know”, rise to the Top 5 earning the band the honor of the highest charting debut single of the year. The follow up single release, “Daddy’s Money”, became an immediate across the board hit, rising to #1 on the Radio & Records Country Singles Chart, the Gavin Country Singles Chart and the Billboard Country Singles Chart (where it stayed #1 for two consecutive weeks). The band’s distinctive musical style and intricate harmonies earned them the recognition as one of the most popular vocal groups in country music, a mantle they still wear today
Now, more than fifteen years later, “The Hardest Working Band In Country Music” is still going strong. The band continues to create great country music, sung with the distinctive harmonies that are their hallmark. They log thousands of miles on the road each year thrilling audiences of all ages across the United States and abroad.
Ricochet is:
Heath Wright – Lead Vocals, Lead Guitar & Fiddle
Chris Hempfling – Drums & Vocals
Larry Hight -Steel Guitar, Electric and Acoustic Guitar, Saxophone & Vocals
Bruce Bennett -Bass & Vocals
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Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm(GMT-07:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
wed13mar6:00 pmDinosaur World LiveFamily Bonus Show6:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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ROARSOME FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY! Looking for fun days out with the kids? Dare to experience the dangers and
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ROARSOME FUN FOR ALL THE FAMILY!
Looking for fun days out with the kids? Dare to experience the dangers and delights of Dinosaur World Live in this roarsome interactive show for all the family!
Discover a pre-historic world of astonishing (and remarkably life-like) dinosaurs. Meet a host of impressive creatures, including every child’s favourite flesh-eating giant, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, a Triceratops, Giraffatitan, Microraptor and Segnosaurus!
A special meet and greet after the show offers all our brave explorers the chance to make a new dinosaur friend. Don’t miss this entertaining and mind-expanding jurassic adventure, live on stage.
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Time
(Wednesday) 6:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
april
tue09apr7:00 pmScrap Arts Music: Children of MetropolisPremier Series 23-247:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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Children of Metropolis is an inventive, fast-paced percussion-based show. Augmenting Scrap Arts Music’s visionary use of sculptural instruments, original compositions, and action-choreography,
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Children of Metropolis is an inventive, fast-paced percussion-based show.
Augmenting Scrap Arts Music’s visionary use of sculptural instruments, original compositions, and action-choreography, creative catalysts Gregory Kozak and Justine Murdy have also now produced a fantasy film that plays during live performances.
Children of Metropolis takes its inspiration from Fritz Lang’s iconic, sci-fi cult classic film, Metropolis (1927).
The new film was created using a similar vintage camera, and 1920s inspired film techniques, and is a collaboration with award-winning Canadian filmmaker Andrew Struthers.
Fun-factoid: Andrew and his team constructed our own version of the city of Metropolis, creating a landscape of retro-futuristic skyscrapers using bits and pieces of Scrap Arts Music’s instruments! The ironic twist is that much of the scrap used in our instruments comes from the construction salvage of contemporary condo towers.
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Time
(Tuesday) 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
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JIMMIE VAUGHAN In true Texas fashion, four-time Grammy-winner Jimmie Vaughan has helped breathe new life into the music that has been his lifeline
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JIMMIE VAUGHAN
In true Texas fashion, four-time Grammy-winner Jimmie Vaughan has helped breathe new life into the music that has been his lifeline all these decades, becoming a hero to those who cherish America’s real gift to musical history.
”When I talk about country and blues, they’re the same thing,” Jimmie Vaughan says. “Muddy Waters and Hank Williams, Webb Pierce and Jimmy Reed. When I was a kid, I didn’t understand the difference. Everybody was always asking me, ‘Why do you want to play blues? Why don’t you play country?’ But I would listen to the country guys and they would be doing a Jimmy Reed song. They’re playing the same lick. And Ray Charles, Little Milton, Guitar Junior, Lonnie Brooks, B.B. King–they all did country songs. Is Bob Wills country blues or jazz? And the answer is, it’s American music. I’m tired of trying to pigeonhole everything. I want to bring it together; it comes from the same place.”
As a young teenager in Oak Cliff, Texas, his father told him to take guitar lessons if he wanted to really learn the instrument. But when Vaughan’s teacher told the guitar student it wasn’t going to work because the student “was too far gone” to learn from the lesson books, Jimmie Vaughan knew he was on his own. Which was perfect for him, because the blues would be his teacher for life. For those who find themselves living inside this true American music, it becomes a way of life, and a musical force to follow forever.
Jimmie Vaughan became possessed by his instrument while listening to the blues on the Black radio station in Dallas, and it has been that way ever since. When something this strong takes over, there is no way out—the pursuit just keeps going deeper.
Jimmie Vaughan has been playing the blues he hears in his head and feels in his heart for over a half-century.
When he first heard songs like Phil Upchurch’s “You Can’t Sit Down,” The Nightcaps’ “Wine, Wine, Wine” and B.B. King’s many hit songs in the early 1960s, he knew he had found his music. And ever since then, it’s been a constant quest to play the blues, whether it was in early 1970s Austin bands like Storm and then the Fabulous Thunderbirds, or later with brother Stevie Ray Vaughan on their FAMILY STYLE album, and on his own releases throughout the 1990s and in 2001.
Then the solo albums stopped, until in 2010, Vaughan had an idea to start recording The Great American Blues Songbook. He assembled the kind of band most musicians can only dream about, and began recording his dream set list at Top Hat and Wire Studios in Austin. Never one to back down from a great idea, in 2011 Vaughan and band went back into the same studio and recorded a second collection of some of his favorite songs, zeroing in on that music’s ability to light a fuse wherever it was heard.
Last fall, to help celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the first of the BLUES, BALLADS AND FAVOURITES albums, THE PLEASURE’S ALL MINE compiled both albums as a collection, and was released alongside a Vinyl reissue of 2016’s JIMMIE VAUGHAN TRIO featuring Mike Flanigin LIVE AT C-BOY’S release, which featured songs recorded at the venerable Austin nightspot that Vaughan and crew call home when they are in town.
In 2019, his newest release, BABY, PLEASE COME HOME brought him back into the spotlight with yet another Grammy nomination, and a Blues Foundation Award for Best Male Artist.
This year, he celebrates his life in the blues and on the road with THE JIMMIE VAUGHAN STORY, a special limited-edition box set and book including over 200 photos covering his life and the breadth of his remarkable career. And yet, Vaughan still feels like he is just getting started, devoted to making sure he is able to give back to the music that has given him so much. The blues is in Jimmie Vaughan’s blood, has been there since the start, and will stay there forever.
Mathias Lattin Bio
At 20 years old, Mathias Lattin won 1st place at the 2023 International Blues Challenge in the band category and was awarded Best Guitarist by the judges. MathiasLattin is an emerging young Texas guitarist and product of the acclaimed Kinder High School for Performing and Visual Arts.
“…there’s enough promise here to mark him as an artist to watch.”- Living Blues Magazine.
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Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
may
thu16may7:00 pmHuu Bac QuintetPremier Series 23-247:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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In Montreal, november 2013, Huu Bac Quach performs his first concert with his quintet skillfully combining his vietnamese and chinese heritages to North American Jazz music.
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In Montreal, november 2013, Huu Bac Quach performs his first concert with his quintet skillfully combining his vietnamese and chinese heritages to North American Jazz music.
Backed by a solid team of some of the most prominent musicians on the up and coming Montreal jazz scene, Huu Bac performs his compositions inspired by his numerous travels in Asia, Europe and South America. He is accompanied by Guillaume Martineau on piano, Marie-Neige Lavigne on violin, Jean-Félix Mailloux on upright bass and Etienne Mason on drums.
In concert, he charms a large public through the beauty and intensity of his musical pieces as well as through his impressive mastery of the dan bau (vietnamese monochord), the erhu (chinese fiddle), the quena (andean flute) and the jazz guitar.
The Huu Bac Quintet delivers a true dialogue between Asian, North and South American cultures in a contemporary, original and unique way!
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(Thursday) 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
june
sat15jun7:00 pmMysto's Really Big Magic Show7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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This Family Friendly Vaudeville Style Magic Show Features 5 big stage illusions. See a woman cut into Thirds, pierced with swords, vanished into thin air,
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This Family Friendly Vaudeville Style Magic Show Features 5 big stage illusions. See a woman cut into Thirds, pierced with swords, vanished into thin air, and the Fastest Trick in the West. By using character, skits, and flawless magic technique, Mysto (the Master Magician and his lovely Assistant Alyssa) bring their audiences back to a simpler time of joy, wonder, amazement, and just good olde-fashioned FUN.
Mitch Harwood aka Mysto the Magi, fell in love with magic at an early age performing his first professional show when he was just 12 years old. By the time he was 14 he performed for an audience of over 300 for a Cancer Society benefit, in which he levitated an audience member.
Since then, Mysto has performed over 10,000 shows ranging from restaurants, art and renaissance festivals, Hollywood movies, cruise ships, corporate events, fundraisers, theaters, and performing art centers.
A consummate entertainer, Mysto is an award-winning magician in both stage magic AND close-up sleight of hand, a unique combination in the world of magic.
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Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
sat22jun7:00 pmCarpool: The Ultimate Cars Tribute BandFlickinger Summer Series7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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With their sleek, synth heavy, steady beat and driving guitar sound all inspired by proto-punk, garage rock, and power pop, Boston-based quintet the Cars racked
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With their sleek, synth heavy, steady beat and driving guitar sound all inspired by proto-punk, garage rock, and power pop, Boston-based quintet the Cars racked up a string of multi platinum albums (6) and a whopping 16 Top 40 singles, becoming the most successful American synth-pop-rock (New Wave) band of the late ’70s and ’80s. Their immense popularity made them and their sound cross over into all top radio format and movie soundtracks. The first two albums (1978’s The Cars and 1979’s Candy-O) became instant classics; their fifth album, 1984’s Heartbeat City was a modern pop masterpiece fueled by a run of videos that became MTV staples. The Cars broke up in 1988, but their music’s popularity and influence never faded. These incredible pioneers were officially inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.
Carpool tribute band recreates the sound, feel, look and vibe that made the Cars world famous. The band is comprised of five of the best and hardest working full-time musicians in the Atlanta, Georgia area. Their performance meticulously captures all the essence and brings it onto the stage. A Carpool show will take you right back to when the Cars were (and continue to be) the soundtrack of our lives, reminding us all of why the Cars hold a very special place in all of our hearts and minds.
Matthew- lead vocals, guitar
Ludwig- lead vocals, bass
Ron- keyboards, vocals
Tony- lead guitar
Dusty – drums, vocals
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Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310
july
sat27jul7:00 pmThe Highwaymen Show7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
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The Highwaymen Show is the Great American Outlaw musical celebrating the world’s most recognized classic country artists. These icons are responsible for creating a new
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The Highwaymen Show is the Great American Outlaw musical celebrating the world’s most recognized classic country artists. These icons are responsible for creating a new era in country music. Our show features a cast portraying the parts of Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings and Kris Kristofferson, as they looked in their prime. They perform their biggest hits, while telling the stories about how they grew together as friends. This show gives you the opportunity to see what they looked like and what they sounded like as they became the superstars we know today. “We feature songs like Always on My Mind, Ring of Fire, Me and Bobby McGee and Luckenbach Texas. I wanted to provide people the opportunity to a show I wish I could have seen,” Founder Gray Sartin said.
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Time
(Saturday) 7:00 pm(GMT-06:00)
Location
Flickinger Center for Performing Arts
1110 New York Avenue, Alamogordo, NM 88310